Franklin Container Corp. v. International Paper Co.

The Panel, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, previously transferred several actions in this litigation to the Southern District of Texas and, with the consent of that court, assigned them to the Honorable John V. Singleton, Jr., for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings with the actions pending there. In re Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation, 441 F.Supp. 921 (Jud. Pan.Mult.Lit.1977). In so doing, the Panel described the actions in this litigation as follows:

The complaints in these actions basically allege that from as early as 1960 until 1975 the defendants and various…